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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



L'ART III, 



, 



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■ le Chasteau de Richelieu 

 en Foictou," given in Ala- 

 rot's Recueil des Plans, \ .. 

 det plusU'urs dc Chasteaux, 

 GroUetf ^.c, published in 

 1661, of which our rig. 12 is. 

 is ■ copy, ■ very rich parterre 

 of embroidery may he ob- 

 served in the fore-ground 

 with a fountain in the centre; PfeS 

 and, in the hack-ground, a Ij|||l 

 large semi circular space ap- 

 pears to he covered with the 

 same description of orna- 

 ment. It may also be ob- 

 served, that there is not a 

 single tree or shrub shown in 



a natural state within several hundred feet of the house, on every side. The 

 embroidered style of parterre is still occasionally to be met with adjoin- 



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ini' very old residences in France and Italy, and even in a few places in 

 England; and, as affording variety, it is at least as worthy of revival as the 

 architectural Ptyleof the age in which it most extensively prevailed. The 

 designs in thii style are to be found in the edition of Boyceau's Jardinage, 

 &.c, which irai published in 1711, in folio. Topiary work, or the art of cut- 

 ting the bOS and other trees into artificial forms, was carried to such an 



I among the Romans, that both Pliny and Vitruviui use the word 

 topiariui to exprei the art. of the gardener; a proof that, as far as ornament 



mm ' snea, the art of clipping was considered the highest accomplishment 

 that could I"- po t led i»'. ;> gardener, among the ancient Romans. This 



